Department of Music : Facilities

Music Listening Library

The Music Departmental Library is available for study and listening to all Wake Forest students, faculty, and staff.  The library’s collection consists primarily of audio/visual materials, including:

• over 3,200 CD recordings
  
• nearly 300 video recordings (both DVDs and VHS tapes) of musical productions
  
• over 4,000 vinyl records *

The library also houses a small collection of musical scores and miniature scores, but the majority of WFU’s sheet music holdings, as well as books about music (composer biographies, for example), are located in ZSR, Wilson 1. 

* due to lack of storage space, records are currently in the process of being moved to external storage. At this point they will still be searchable in the catalog and retrievable if requested.

CIRCULATION POLICIES

Materials in the Music Library may be borrowed by faculty and staff for a loan period of two weeks, and may be renewed by accessing your library account . Music library materials do not circulate to students, but students may use materials in-house at one of our study areas.  You may listen at one of our listening stations or you may bring your own CD player.       

HOW TO FIND MATERIALS

Our collection can be searched in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library catalog by narrowing the results of your search to the location "Music Departmental Library - Scales Fine Arts Building, M311."  Once you’ve completed a basic search this option can be found in the right column.

A note on searching for CD recordings: all sound recordings (vinyl records as well as CDs) are listed as being in CD format when a basic search is first performed.  Under the “description” tab of each item’s record you will find a physical description that identifies the item as either a vinyl record (for example, “1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm”) or a compact disc (for example, “1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in”). 

The quickest and most straightforward way to differentiate between CDs and records at a glance is to look at the item’s call number.  Vinyl records have a purely numerical call number (1234) and CDs have “CD-“ in front of a number (CD-1234). 

Vinyl records and scores may be browsed on their shelves, but CDs and DVDs are stored in drawers and must be retrieved.  Once you have a list of call numbers of CDs or DVDs you would like to borrow, give them to a staff member and they will retrieve the recordings for you. 

Summer 2011 Library Hours

Monday-Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location: Scales Fine Arts Center, Room M311
Librarian: Joanna Porter, Room M309
Phone: (336) 758-5026